surrender

Example Sentences

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Rather than surrender to those setbacks, Raye saddles up and sets off in search of happiness.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

"It feels as though you want to give up, but you also know you can't surrender because you have a family."

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

Gone are any references to approving the nation's next leader or "unconditional surrender", which Trump had insisted on in the early days of the war.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

America’s general forced the British to surrender Boston.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

From one apartment, Lothar Loewe saw white bedsheets hung as flags of surrender.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti